Corn-planter.



N0. 635,323. Patented 001. 24, |899. G. R. HOLLIS.

conn PLANTER;

(Application led Feb. 25, 1899.)

(No Model.)

F i, Juventa UNITED STATES PATENT EET-CE.

CORN-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,323, dated October 24, 1899. Application filed February 25, 1899. Serial No. 706,833. (No model.)

, To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE RICHARD HoL- Lis, a citizen of the United States, residing at McDaniel, in the countyof Talbot and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corn-Planters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to cornplanters,and more particularly to one adapted to drop the corn at denite intervals through a drill-tube.

The invention while particularly adapted for corn can be used equally as Well for any kind of grain, and while I have shown my invention as constructed for dropping two rows of corn at one time it can be constructed to drop only a single row.

One object of the invention is to provide a cheap and simple appliance which will drop the corn at regular intervals, and another object is to provide means capable of so operating which can be quickly and easily thrown out of operation whenever desired.

In the drawings forming part of this specication, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View of aplanter constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out my invention I employ the side beams A, supported upon the axle B, mounted upon ground-wheels O. The double hopper D is arranged between the side beams A and is provided with the hinged cover D'. A suitable draft appliance D2 is attached to the hopper and by means of which the planter can be drawn across the field. The cut-off slide E works through the bottom of the double hopper, said slide having openings E', which are adapted to register with the drilltubes F, said tubes being arranged at the discharge end of the hopper, and whenever the cut-off slide is moved so as to bring the openings E into register with the tubes F the grain will be dropped therethrough. The cut-od slide is normally held in such position, as shown in Fig. 2, to cut off the discharge of grain, and the spring G, surrounding the cutoff slide and bearing against one of the side members, Will serve to hold the slide in this position.

For the purpose of forcing the slide inwardly to drop the grain I arrange an arm II upon the end of the cut-olf slide, which arm is engaged by a wedge-shaped boss I, mounted upon the inner face of the gearwheel K, which meshes with the pinion K', mounted upon the axle B. The gear K is mounted upona shaft L, which is journaled in bearings L', mounted upon the ends of the arms L2, which are pivoted at L3 at the forward end of the hopper. The arms L2 are connected by means of a cross-shaft M, from which hangs an arm N, which is pivotally connected to alever O, pivoted to the top of the hopper at O and havinga loop O2 at its rear end adapted to engage a spring-catch P, arranged upon the rear end of the hopper. The cross-shaft M also has an eye Q attached thereto, which eye is adapted to fit over a pin R, mounted at the end of the standard S, and passing through the pin R is a cross-pin R.

When the planter is in use, the various parts are in the position shown in the drawings, the gear-wheel being held in mesh with the pinion by means of the lever O, thus securely fastened at its rear end. Whenever it is desired to move the planter from place to place and prevent the same from dropping grain, the gear-wheel K is lifted out of engagement with the pinion by releasing the lever O and lifting it so as to carry the eye Q over the pin R, and the cross-pin R' is then inserted, holding the arms L2, lever O, and shaft L in an elevated position, consequently holding the gear-wheel out of engagement with the pinion.

It will thus be seen that I provide an eX- cecdingly simple and efficient construction of corn-planter of the kind described.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. In a corn-planter, the combination with the hopper and delivery-tube, of the springactuated cut-off slide having an arm at one end, the axle and pinion mounted thereon, the gear having a wedge-.shaped boss adapted to engage the arm on the cut-off slide, the shaft upon which said gear is mounted, the pivoted frame carrying said shaft, the lever for raising the said frame, a standard having a pin, an eye carried by the frame and adapted to pass over said pin, and a cross-pin for locking the frame in its raised position, substantially as shown and described.

2. ln a corn-planter, the combination with and lhe cross-pin, Ihe lever for raising lche the main frame and hopper, of the eut-off frame, said lever having a. loop ab its rear slide having an arin at one end, and a spring end, and a spring-actuated catch adapted to at the opposite end, the axle and pinion engage the loop at lche end of the lever, sub- 5 mounted thereon, the gear having a wedgestantinlly as and for the purpose described. 15

shaped boss adapted to engage the arm, lche Y shaft upon which the gear is mounted, the GEORGE RICHARD HOLLIS pivoted nrin carrying the said frame having Vitnesses: an eye, the vertical standard, the pin carried MALACHI BASIN, 1o by said standard adapted to engage the eye, GEORGE C. RASIN. 

